Comparing me to the rest of my generation is, at the moment, like comparing apples and oranges. I don't listen to popular music. I don't wear popular clothes. I don't use the current catchphrases, like swag or YOLO. I'm not glued to my cell phones like most people my age are. Heck, my phone is dead half the time and I don't even notice. This is why I rarely choose to interact with my peers - I have so little in common with most of them. Instead, I prefer to spend time with adults.
When I was a little girl I would go with my parents to adult events, like dinner parties. I was usually the only kid there, so the conversations and whatnot were about grown-up things, like work, politics, etc. Before I went to kindergarten, this was most of my social life. Sure, I had friends my age, but the majority of my socializing was with my parents (who treated me almost like a little adult, but not in a bad sense) and other people their age.
Could early exposure to adult conversation have helped me mature earlier than the rest of my generation? I'd have to say yes. Seeing adults in their natural environment taught me quite a lot about manners and etiquette, for example. It also made me prefer interacting with adults, since adult conversation is what I was used to. Even though I've grown through the years, this fact about me hasn't really changed. I've learned how to interact with people my age, but I would much rather talk to adults, since that was what I was doing during my most impressionable years.
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